THE DICOM 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & SEMINAR March 14-16Bangalore, India Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP RR Meenatchi Aparna Lead Engineer, Design and Development, Siemens Technologies and Services Private Ltd., Bangalore, India I Prabhu Lead Engineer, Design and Development, Siemens Technologies and Services Private Ltd., Bangalore, India

Agenda Outline Introduction Current Workflow of C MOVE Services Problem found in Current Workflow Suggested Workflow Experimental values Conclusions References (if any) Contact info of Presenter March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Outline This paper focuses on the usage of particular medical imaging workflow C MOVE DICOM protocol in an optimal manner in a medical imaging application. March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Introduction Our aim is to address the current problems of C MOVE DICOM protocol. The Emphasis is on the possible ways to improve the handling of the protocol and inducing smart solution to optimize the workflow March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Current Workflow of C MOVE Service The data are moved from TARGET NODE to DESTINATION NODE. The request of data movement is initiated by SOURCE NODE. March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Current Workflow of C MOVE Service The SOURCE NODE opens a association to TARGET NODE to initiate the C MOVE RQ The SOURE NODE sends list of UIDs that has to moved from TARGET NODE to DESTINATION NODE The TARGET NODE opens a association to DESTINATION NODE to initiate C STORE RQ to store the UIDs in the DESINATION NODE All UIDs information are transferred from TARGET NODE TO DESTINATION NODE THE DESTINATION closes the association to TARGET NODE The TARGET NODE closes the association to the SOURCE NODE March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Problem found in Current Workflow An unnecessary network transfer can happen if the instances moved are already present in the DESTINATION NODE The data presence can be detected only while committing the instances in the system The above transfer can reduce the performance due to redundant transfer The receiver in case of passive send has no other way to receive the redundant images and finds the presence of same instance only during database commitment There is no mechanism to prevent the duplicate instance UID conflicts issue March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Suggested Workflow March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Suggested Workflow The SOURCE NODE opens a association to TARGET NODE to initiate the C MOVE RQ The SOURE NODE sends list of UIDs that has to moved from TARGET NODE to DESTINATION NODE The TARGET NODE opens a association to DESTINATION NODE to initiate Commitment request to check status the UIDs(i.e. Whether already present The TARGET NODE filters UIDs that are already present in the DESTINATION NODE and send the UID information that are not present DESTINATION NODE THE DESTINATION NODE closes the association to TARGET NODE The TARGET NODE closes the association to the SOURCE NODE March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Advantages of Suggested Workflow  Performance improvement  Effective bandwidth utilization  Effective Data utilization for intelligence algorithm  Avoiding Redundant data transfer March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Experimental Values - Current Workflow For instance consider a set of 1000 images of Patient A for moving out of which 500 images are already present in the destination machine and only 500 images are newly generated With the Current Workflow Time taken to send one image from target to destination = 68ms Approximate time taken to send 1000 images = 68 secs Time taken for commitment for 1000 images = 3 secs Total time taken for one workflow = 71 secs March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Experimental Values - Suggested Workflow By implementing the Suggested Workflow Time taken for initial commitment (filter request) = 3 secs Approximate time taken to send 500 images = 32 secs Time taken for final commitment for 500 images = 3 secs Total time taken for one workflow = 38 secs The values are based on the transfer results on C++ based medical imaging systems with constant CPU performance, Networking Protocols Standards,Constant Network Performance and Constant DICOM Series. March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

Conclusions With the experimental results there is saving of 33 secs which is almost equal to the percentage of images already present in the destination Node(ie 50%). This clearly shows that there is a requirement to improve the handling of C MOVE RQ in C MOVE SCP. A filtering mechanism when implemented in C MOVE SCP can give a performance improvement and a better bandwidth utilization. March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP

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Author Contacts RR. Meenatchi Aparna I. Prabhu Thank you for your attention ! March 2013 DICOM International Conference & Seminar Smart Filtering in C MOVE SCP